Omaha daily bee., 1887-04-09
BLAINE ILL.
He Is Attacked By Bronchial Catarrh
nj Fort GihaOn.

ST. LOUIS, Aplil. ga private telegram
has been received in this city from Fort Glib.
son. Indian Territory, stating that Blaine
has severe cold and is threatened with
pneumonia. No particulars yet have been
received, but a telegram has been sent to
Col. Coppinger, commandant of the post, and
son-in-law of Blaine, asking for the facts and
they will be reported as soon as received.
r. &. Kernes, a personal friend of Blaine,
accompanied by q prominent physician OF
this city, left here at p. m, by special train
for Fort Gibson. None Of the circumstances
leading to Blaine's illness are yet known
here, but particulars are momentariy
expected. The inference naturally drawn
from the fact that the physician had gone
from here to see, and perhaps to attend
Blaine IN the face of the probable fact that
there is skillful army surgeon at Fort
Gibson, is that he is, or is likely to
be- seriously Ill. TO determine
this, however, further advices
will have to be awaited. Meantime the prl-
the statement of Blaine's physician is as fol-
lows: "Blaine is doing well. Only slight
fever Pulse good, only eighty per minute;
respiration fifteen"
The following dispatch was received by the
Associated press at 80 tonight in reply to
a telegram sent this morning to the conf
mandant of the post at Fort Gibson asking
for an account of Blaine's sickness:
Fort GIBSON, l.: r., April S.--To the AS
sOciated Press-Blaine is suffering from
bronchial catarrh, with fever of q remitting
type. He sleeps well and has no typhoid
symptoms. His respiration is normal.
lSighedl CHARLES p. BERNE,
Post Surgeon.
The latest information from Fort Gibson
is that Blaine was quite unwell when the
train arrived at Gibson station on Sunday
night; that he did not go over the fort until
the next day; that he has been ill with very
bad cold since then, but that he will leave
for the north tomorrow. 1t is not stated
where he will 90, nor what his future move
ments will be, but it was given out when he
was in this city that when he left for Gibson
he was to so TO Chicago.
The Baptists and the Newspapers.
New YORK, April s.-ISpecial Tele-
gram to the BEE. THE Baptist Social
union dined at Delmonico's last night and
afterwards discussed "The Moral Influence
of the Secular Press" A paper by Ros-
well Smith, president of the Century
company, was read in which he spoke of the
enormous growth of the press and declared
that the moral influence of the press was
good and beneficial beyond human thought.
The Russian nihilists in 1913 trials had prayed
not for pardons or lenlency, but for public
| report of their cases. United Italy, too, was
due to the power of the press. Rev. Robert
l.. Collyer said that the press was one the
strongest powers for good that he new Of.
| The newspapers were more widely and
faithfully read nowadays than the bible; it
| was an everlasting standing committee of
inquiry and investigation. The papers
ometimes:substituted what was pungent for
| what was true, to sell their news but great
many preachers did the same thing to sell
their pews. Several of the members of the
| union made five minute speeches. One
wanted an ''elite' paper published. Another
commended the Philadelphia Ledger as the
| one clean and wholesome paper in America.
| Another called the reporters bad names like
''scavengers" and 'earthworms." He was
| an old gentleman of full habit, apparently
| particularly sensitive and nervous.